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AndrewPienaar
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AndrewPienaar
5 months ago
Can I add Peter F. Hamilton, he's latest offerings - the Pandora's Star series - have been superb. I'm also a big fan of Heinlein and Clarke, more for Clarke's short stories though.
ajk77
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ajk77
6 months ago
Among those not greatly mentioned already, I recommend

Greg Bear
Kim Stanley Robinson
H G Wells

and if dystopia's are allowed... are they?

Margaret Atwood: Oryx and Crake
Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let me Go
PD James: Children of Men
Doris Lessing: the Sirian Experiments
and of course
Aldous Huxley: Brave New world
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ceegeetee
6 months ago
I'm reading The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury right now and I'm loving it. Probably ther best sci fi book i've ever read
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fairyhedgehog
10 months ago
I've only liked one Iain M. Banks book and that was Player of Games. I like Sherri Tepper on the whole and I loved Gibbons Decline and Fall.

I too remember when Asimov was groundbreaking. You just couldn't get much sci fi in those days, and none of it was written by or for women. Protagonists were all male in a mostly male universe, usually, with women just there for scenery or to service the men's needs.
hashford said @ 2009-02-0613:41:26.343+00:00Reply
Hard to do I must admit. But Asimov seems a bit dated nowdays. What about a whole new generation of sci-fi writers.

I recommend Iain M Banks and Sheri Tepper (to name just two).

Yes I would count Terry Pratchett as sci-fi - or are we being purist and separating sci-fi from fantasy (in which case Iwould have to put him under Fantasy)? Wonderful author - I love his books.
bookarmy said @ 2008-12-1114:45:58.750+00:00Reply
asimov - name someone better.
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engmajtw
12 months ago
I've read Asimov and Bear and many authors. They are wonderful. I've just discovered Dan Simmons, and read his "Ilium" and currently reading his "Drood." He blends scifi with fantasy and alternate history, and stirs in some literary aspects, for good measure!
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drew53
1 years ago
I agree about the "Dated" but at the time these books came out - and I'm old enough to have read the Robot books of Asimov, 2001 and Dune many years ago - they were mold breaking. Like William Gibson was with cyberpunk, David Gemmell with updating Robert Howard and the space opera writers like Alistair Reynolds, Dave Weber and David Drake. Now, there's Richard Morgan, whose first Takeshi Kovacs book (cant remember the title) was a phenomenon. Joe Abercrombie has retaken the Fantasy genre to new heights. Once, there was a shortage of good/great scifi - now theres much more rubbish but more great stuff too. I wish there wasnt such a passion for trilogies though.
hashford said @ 2009-02-0613:41:26.343+00:00Reply
Hard to do I must admit. But Asimov seems a bit dated nowdays. What about a whole new generation of sci-fi writers.

I recommend Iain M Banks and Sheri Tepper (to name just two).

Yes I would count Terry Pratchett as sci-fi - or are we being purist and separating sci-fi from fantasy (in which case Iwould have to put him under Fantasy)? Wonderful author - I love his books.
bookarmy said @ 2008-12-1114:45:58.750+00:00Reply
asimov - name someone better.
hashford
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hashford
1 years ago
Hard to do I must admit. But Asimov seems a bit dated nowdays. What about a whole new generation of sci-fi writers.

I recommend Iain M Banks and Sheri Tepper (to name just two).

Yes I would count Terry Pratchett as sci-fi - or are we being purist and separating sci-fi from fantasy (in which case Iwould have to put him under Fantasy)? Wonderful author - I love his books.
bookarmy said @ 2008-12-1114:45:58.750+00:00Reply
asimov - name someone better.
Kirsty
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Kirsty
1 years ago
I'm not sure I'd count Discworld as SF. I think someone, possibly Terry Pratchett, described it as holding a mirror to the real world. It's a parody of reality, whereas what interests me about SF is that it tends to take ideas and extend them to the limits of possibility. So no matter how strange or fantastic, it is still a possible version of the future.
I'm afraid I can't name anyone better than Asimov as far as SF authors go. However for best ever SF books I nominate the Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Charli800
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Charli800
1 years ago
Does Terry Pratchett count as SF? ('Somewhere in the multiverse'). He's very different, but just as good as these authors. Anne McCaffrey too - much softer SF. I don't know if there's really a comparison.
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Maiyya
1 years ago
I love ...

Robert Silverberg

And

Edgar Rice Burroughs
bookarmy said @ 2008-12-1114:45:58.750+00:00Reply
asimov - name someone better.
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